Callow

//ˈkæləʊ//

Synonyms for "callow" (192 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (39)

Strong matches (57)

Related words (96)

Related word relations

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Translations

33 translations across 15 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • неопитен adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 没经年 adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)

Czech

2 entries
  • nezkušený adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)
  • nezralý adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)

Dutch

3 entries
  • groen adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)
  • onervaren adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)
  • onrijp adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)

Finnish

4 entries
  • kokematon adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)
  • kokematon adj (of or relating to something immature or inexperienced)
  • kypsymätön adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)
  • vihreä adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)

German

3 entries
  • grün adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)
  • unerfahren adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)
  • unreif adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)

Greek

2 entries
  • άπειρος adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)
  • πρωτόβγαλτος adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • taknyos adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)
  • zöldfülű adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)

Irish

1 entries
  • gan chiall adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)

Māori

1 entries
  • waitau adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)

Polish

2 entries
  • niedojrzały adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)
  • niedoświadczony adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • imaturo adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)
  • inexperiente adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)
  • verde adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)

Russian

2 entries
  • незре́лый adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)
  • нео́пытный adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)

Spanish

2 entries
  • inmaduro adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)
  • verde adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • недосві́дчений adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)
  • незрі́лий adj (lacking life experience — see also immature, inexperienced, naive)

Sample sentences

25 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The callow recruits wished they were home.

Source: tatoeba (8983370)

He’s too callow to handle such responsibilities.

Source: tatoeba (12715356)

Then there was a little Chinese in full azure costume, with long gesticulating arms, and large callow head, who pertinaciously threw in his squeaky plea for Confucius in the most unsyntactical French.

Source: wiktionary

There was a sense abroad as he spoke that the world was rocking together to great music, and this callow-headed professor by the table had caught a note of it.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.